IT WAS THE pattern OF SUPREME COUR...

IT WAS THE pattern OF SUPREME COURT CASE THAT makes everyone involved in land development-builders, developer planners-very nervous.

The dispute dated to the 1980 when the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, worried about environmental impacts in succession Lake Tahoe, blocked development near the lake for almost three years. ownership owners (represented largely by an association called the Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council) su claiming the agency's action had deprived them of the intended use of their land: residential unfolding

To these landowners, the planning moratoria set forthed what's known as a "taking." The period of time refers to when ...